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Author : Pamela King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781513602424
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Come to Central Park written by Pamela King and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Morrison H. Heckscher
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0300136692
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Creating Central Park written by Morrison H. Heckscher and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2008 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2008 marks the 150th anniversary of the design of Central Park, the first and arguably the most famous of America’s urban landscape parks. In October 1857 the new park’s board of commissioners announced a public design competition, and the following April the imaginative yet practicable "Greensward” plan submitted by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted was selected. This book tells the fascinating story of how an extraordinary work of public art emerged from the crucible of New York City politics. From William Cullen Bryant’s 1844 editorial calling for "a pleasure ground of shade and recreation” to the completion of construction in 1870, the history of Central Park is an urban epic--a tale not only of animosity, political intrigue, and desire but also of idealism, sacrifice, and genius.
Author : Adam Gamble
Publisher : Good Night Books
ISBN 13 : 1602191131
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Good Night Central Park written by Adam Gamble and published by Good Night Books. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of North America’s most beloved regions are artfully celebrated in these board books designed to soothe children before bedtime while instilling an early appreciation for the continent’s natural and cultural wonders. Each book stars a multicultural group of people visiting the featured area's attractions and rhythmic language guides children through the passage of both a single day and the four seasons while saluting the iconic aspects of each place. From the statues to the street performers, the most interesting aspects and features of Central Park are explored in the colorful book, including the zoo, the various pools and ponds, Lasker Pool and Rink, and the Conservatory Garden. Visitors to the Big Apple or children that call New York City home will love reading about the famous urban park.
Author : Sara Cedar Miller
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231543905
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Before Central Park written by Sara Cedar Miller and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner - 2023 John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize, UVA Center for Cultural Landscapes With more than eight hundred sprawling green acres in the middle of one of the world’s densest cities, Central Park is an urban masterpiece. Designed in the middle of the nineteenth century by the landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, it is a model for city parks worldwide. But before it became Central Park, the land was the site of farms, businesses, churches, wars, and burial grounds—and home to many different kinds of New Yorkers. This book is the authoritative account of the place that would become Central Park. From the first Dutch family to settle on the land through the political crusade to create America’s first major urban park, Sara Cedar Miller chronicles two and a half centuries of history. She tells the stories of Indigenous hunters, enslaved people and enslavers, American patriots and British loyalists, the Black landowners of Seneca Village, Irish pig farmers, tavern owners, Catholic sisters, Jewish protesters, and more. Miller unveils a British fortification and camp during the Revolutionary War, a suburban retreat from the yellow fever epidemics at the turn of the nineteenth century, and the properties that a group of free Black Americans used to secure their right to vote. Tales of political chicanery, real estate speculation, cons, and scams stand alongside democratic idealism, the striving of immigrants, and powerfully human lives. Before Central Park shows how much of the history of early America is still etched upon the landscapes of Central Park today.
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Publisher : Vendome Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865653146
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (531 download)
Download or read book Painting Central Park written by and published by Vendome Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central Park is "one of the greatest works of art in America" and it has inspired many of America's greatest painters. Among the major figures who have depicted the park's landscapes and activities are Bellows, Chase, Glackens, Hassam, Henri, Hopper, Prendergast, and Sloan, as well as living artists like Christo and Estes. Their work shows early views of the park in construction, its major landmarks, the evolving vistas of the cityscape, and the park's human element--scenes of crowds at play and people in solitary contemplation. Painting Central Park provides a rich and varied visual history of this urban oasis, reflecting much of the American social experience in the quintessential American park.
Author : Ashley Benham Yazdani
Publisher : Candlewick
ISBN 13 : 0763696951
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)
Download or read book A Green Place to Be: The Creation of Central Park written by Ashley Benham Yazdani and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Central Park become a vibrant gem in the heart of New York City? Follow the visionaries behind the plan as it springs to green life. In 1858, New York City was growing so fast that new roads and tall buildings threatened to swallow up the remaining open space. The people needed a green place to be — a park with ponds to row on and paths for wandering through trees and over bridges. When a citywide contest solicited plans for creating a park out of barren swampland, Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted put their heads together to create the winning design, and the hard work of making their plans a reality began. By winter, the lake opened for skating. By the next summer, the waterside woodland known as the Ramble opened for all to enjoy. Meanwhile, sculptors, stone masons, and master gardeners joined in to construct thirty-four unique bridges, along with fountains, pagodas, and band shells, making New York's Central Park a green gift to everyone. Included in the end matter are bios of Vaux and Olmsted, a bibliography, and engaging factual snippets.
Author : Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1524733555
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Saving Central Park written by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how one woman's long love affair with New York's Central Park led her to organize its rescue from a state of serious decline, returning it to the beautiful place of recreational opportunity and spiritual sustenance that it is today. Elizabeth Barlow Rogers opens with a quick survey of her early life--a middle-class upbringing in Texas; college at Wellesley, marriage, a master's degree in city planning at Yale. And then her move to New York, where she starts a family and, when she finds being a mother and a housewife is not enough, pours herself into the protection and enhancement of the city's green spaces. Interwoven into her own story is a comprehensive history of Central Park: its design and construction as a scenic masterpiece; the alterations of each succeeding era; the addition of numerous facilities for sports and play; and finally, the "anything goes" phase of the 1960s and 70s, which was often fun but nearly destroyed the park. The two narratives continue to entwine as she finds a job in the administration of Central Park, founds the Central Park Conservancy, and transforms both the park and herself--a transformation that has led to the writing of her many books, to travels that have taken her to parks and gardens around the world, and to solidifying the prestige of one of New York's most conspicuous landmarks.
Author : Roy Rosenzweig
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801497513
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (975 download)
Download or read book The Park and the People written by Roy Rosenzweig and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delineate the politicians, business people, artists, immigrant laborers, and city dwellers who are the key players in the tale. In tracing the park's history, the writers also give us the history of New York. They explain how squabbles over politics, taxes, and real estate development shaped the park and describe the acrimonious debates over what a public park should look like, what facilities it should offer, and how it should accommodate the often incompatible.
Author : Marcia Reiss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781607100072
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 ( download)
Download or read book Central Park Then and Now written by Marcia Reiss and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explore central park, the heart of New York city and the very first landscape public park in the United States. Central Park Then and Now presents compelling historic and contemporary images of this famous park from throughout its 150 year history and across its 843-acre sylvan landscape filled with a unique urban vitality."--Book jacket.
Author : Trisha Meili
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743256077
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book I Am the Central Park Jogger written by Trisha Meili and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-04-18 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timeless, “triumphant” (Entertainment Weekly) story of healing and recovery from the victim of a crime that shocked the nation: the Central Park Jogger. Shortly after 9:00 p.m. on April 19, 1989, a young woman jogs alone near 102nd Street in New York City's Central Park. She is attacked, raped, savagely beaten, and left for dead. Hours later she arrives at the emergency room—comatose—she has lost so much blood that her doctors believe it’s a miracle she's still alive. Meet Trisha Meili, the Central Park Jogger. I Am the Central Park Jogger recounts the mesmerizing, inspiring, often wrenching story of human strength and transcendent recovery. Called “Hero of the Month” by Glamour magazine, Meili tells us who she was before the attack—a young Wall Street professional with a promising future—and who she has become: a woman who learned how to read, write, walk, talk, and love again...and turn horrifying violence and certain death into extraordinary healing and victorious life. With “moments of unexpected grace and insights into life’s challenges….Meili’s story—the story the public never knew—is unforgettable” (The Buffalo News).
Author : Avi
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060515570
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Mayor of Central Park written by Avi and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-03-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is good for Oscar Westerwit. He's the mayor of Central Park -- the greatest place on earth for the squirrels, chipmunks, mice, and other animals who live there. He's the shortstop and manager of his baseball team. What could be bad? Plenty! Big Daddy Duds, jewel thief, all-around thug, and leader of rats, is about to take over the park. And when he does, the other animals who live there will be turned out of their homes. Everyone looks to Oscar to save the day, but he may not even be able to save himself. . . .
Author : Fran Quittel
Publisher : Gingerspice Pressan
ISBN 13 : 9781587904462
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Central Park Lost Mitten Party written by Fran Quittel and published by Gingerspice Pressan. This book was released on 2018 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl is sad after losing her giraffe mitten, but while she dreams the mitten joins other lost items for a party in New York City's Central Park. Includes location notes, information about visiting the park and nearby sites, and facts about the park.
Author : Marie Winn
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679758461
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Red-Tails in Love written by Marie Winn and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1999-03-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated Edition—Ten Years Later The scene of this enchanting (and true) story is the Ramble, an unknown wilderness deep in the heart of New York's fabled Central Park. There an odd and amiable band of nature lovers devote themselves to observing and protecting the park's rich wildlife. When a pair of red-tailed hawks builds a nest atop a Fifth Avenue apartment house across the street from the model-boat pond, Marie Winn and her fellow "Regulars" are soon transformed into obsessed hawkwatchers. The hilarious and occasionally heartbreaking saga of Pale Male and his mate as they struggle to raise a family in their unprecedented nest site, and the affectionate portrait of the humans who fall under their spell will delight and inspire readers for years to come.
Author : Fran Reisner
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN 13 : 0789322129
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (893 download)
Download or read book The Dogs of Central Park written by Fran Reisner and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects photographs of dogs throughout New York City's Central Park.
Author : Marie Winn
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374120115
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Central Park in the Dark written by Marie Winn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and loss, life and death, among the nighttime creatures of the city that never sleeps Like her bestseller Red-Tails in Love, Marie Winn’s Central Park in the Dark explores a once-hidden world in a series of interlocking narratives about the extraordinary denizens, human and animal, of an iconic American park. Her beguiling account of a city’s lakes and woodlands at night takes the reader through the cycle of seasons as experienced by nocturnal active beasts (raccoons, bats, black skimmers, and sleeping robins among them), insects (moths, wasps, fireflies, crickets), and slugs (in all their unexpected poetical randiness). Winn does not neglect her famous protagonists Pale Male and Lola, the hawks that captivated readers years ago, but this time she adds an exciting narrative about thirty-eight screech owls in Central Park and their lives, loves, and tragedies there. An eye-popping amount of natural history is packed into this entertaining book—on bird physiology, spiders, sunsets, dragonflies, meteor showers, and the nature of darkness. But the human drama is never forgotten, for Central Park at night boasts a floating population not only of lovers, dog walkers, and policemen but of regulars young and old who, like Winn, hope to unlock the secrets of urban nature. These “night people” are drawn into a peculiar kind of intimacy. While exploring the astonishing variety of wildlife in the city park, they end up revealing more of their inner lives than they expected.
Author : Edward S. Barnard
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Central Park Trees and Landscapes written by Edward S. Barnard and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The splendor of New York’s most famous green space comes alive in this essential companion for nature lovers and travelers to New York. In more than 900 color images, a leading nature writer and a long-time Central Park naturalist detail the park’s tree species and their place in the park’s iconic landscapes. They show how to identify trees by their needles and leaves as well as by their flowers, fruits, and bark. Historical maps illustrate Manhattan’s changing vegetation and depict the various stages of the park’s construction. Beautiful photographs of the park’s most outstanding trees and landscapes accompanied by historical vignettes conjure the people and events that brought the trees to the park and helped create this urban oasis. More than a botanical guide, this book cultivates an appreciation of the park as both a natural triumph and an embodiment of the city’s varied spirit.
Author : Dennis Burton
Publisher : Regina Ryan Publishing Enterprises Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780988225992
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (259 download)
Download or read book Nature Walks of Central Park written by Dennis Burton and published by Regina Ryan Publishing Enterprises Incorporated. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former Natural Areas Ecologist of the Central Park Conservancy celebrates this extraordinary urban oasis with nine intimate walking tours that reveal the park's rich natural heritage and hidden treasures; complete with 9 maps and 18 original watercolors and drawings by artist Alan Messer depicting actual birds, flowers, trees and shrubs found within the park. Completely revised and updated.
